Oil & Fish in the North Atlantic

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Having spent only 3 days on the snow coated Lofoten Islands, shooting with cod fisherman Bjornar Nicolaisen, it was time to leave and follow the path of many Viking longships 1,000 years before across the icy Atlantic to Newfoundland, the most easterly point of North America. The debate still rages as to whether Saint Brendan…

Flying over the coast of Northern Norway is really spectacular, and from the air the landscape appears like a sunken mountain range, and completely inhospitable. On the northern tip of Andoya, the northern-most of the Lofoten (Lynx-foot) islands, is home to fisherman Bjornar Nicholaisen and his wife, Ingrid. As the plane comes in to land…

About a year ago a Norwegian fisherman, Bjørnar Nicolaisen, from the breath-taking Lofoten Islands in the north of Norway visited Rossport with his wife. He had seen my doc ‘The Pipe’ and wanted to see for himself what was happening in Ireland and talk to fishermen, especially Pat ‘The Chief’ O’Donnell who almost single-handedly took on…